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- Praise flowed from the top Wednesday at Philadelphia Eagles training camp, as owner Jeffrey Lurie expressed his extreme satisfaction with the state of his rebuilt team under second-year coach Chip Kelly. He is most pleased with the team approach Kelly has created both inside the locker room and with the organization as a whole. "I feel really lucky to have a coach and a coaching staff that is really dynamic," Lurie said in an impromptu news conference following practice. "I think of the reasons why he and his staff have been so successful is that it's just such a team approach.

— Sitting out your first NFL season is not the best way to prepare for your second season, but Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Joe Kruger had no choice. He was essentially stashed on the injured reserve list last year with a shoulder injury that required no surgery and was fully healed around midseason. Fortunately for him, he has a great family support group, starting with his older brother, Joe, a six-year NFL veteran. "We just went over a lot of stuff [in the offseason]

- Mark Sanchez arrived at Philadelphia Eagles training camp last week amid a great deal of valid questions regarding his ability, confidence and physical condition. After just three days of practice, he seems to have eliminated them all. The backup quarterback's throws are crisper and more accurate than they were in the offseason minicamps. His decisions are quicker and his results are a lot more satisfying. The reason? According to Sanchez, it's simply because he's all the way back from the shoulder injury that wrecked last season before it began, landing him in the operating room and on the injured reserve list of the New York Jets, who released him in March.

- First rule of Fight Club: Don't talk about Fight Club. Second rule of Fight Club: DON'T TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB!!! OK, we have to break that rule here because, well, two more Philadelphia Eagles teammates mixed it up on Monday, this time in their stadium, in front of nearly 15,000 fans at an open training camp practice. Wide receiver Jeremy Maclin, who's displayed a bit of a temper in the past, and cornerback Bradley Fletcher, who has not, were the participants. Punches were thrown, fans roared just like they do across the street whenever a Flyer drops his gloves, and the Eagles delivered on the hint of more that they provided on Sunday, after running back LeSean McCoy and linebacker Trent Cole went at it. Practice ended less than two minutes later, and Maclin stormed off without comment.

By Meghan Moravcik Walbert, Special to The Morning Call | July 28, 2014

The Nazareth Area School District has a new athletic director, taking Tom Moll away from Catasauqua High School. "Congratulations, you now officially work for us," Superintendent Dennis Riker told Moll on Monday night after the school board approved Moll's hiring. Moll was named Pennsylvania Region II Athletic Director of the Year in February. He is a 1990 Catasauqua graduate and has been an athletic administrator in the school district for eight years. "I'm really excited about this opportunity; it's a big challenge," Moll told the board and district administrators.

- If Chip Kelly has any secrets fueling his success, he's sure not sharing them with the public. Ever. But chances are that the Philadelphia Eagles coach, who turned a dysfunctional four-win squad into an NFC East champ in his first NFL season a year ago, really has none. His winning formula is not nearly as complicated as his audible system and play calls in general. In fact, it can be boiled down to one main component: passion. The 50-year-old coach simply loves football and has been lucky enough to have the opportunity to work at it as much as he pleases for almost all his adult life.

PHOENIX, July 21 (Reuters) - A Philadelphia Eagles football player was arrested in Arizona on suspicion of felony aggravated assault for allegedly pushing a police officer probing a bar fight, authorities said on Monday. Keelan Johnson, 24, was booked into jail early on Saturday and later released after the skirmish at a bar on Mill Avenue, an entertainment district near Arizona State University in Tempe. Johnson, an Eagles safety who played college football for Arizona State, is accused by Tempe police of assault and resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, according to court records.

Nick Fierro reports that money matters surrounding Brandon Graham and Bradley Fletcher will fuel completion when the Eagles open camp in 10 days … South African Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius, on trial for the murder of his girlfriend, was involved in a physical altercation with another patron in a Johannesburg night club. No arrests were made. … Oakland's Yoenis Cespedes defended his Home Run Derby championship on Monday night. … Two time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw is still waiting for his first all-star start after St. Louis manager Mike Metheny selected Cardinal ace Adam Wainright to start for the National League in tonight's All-Star Game (8 p.m., FOX)

Free tickets for the Philadelphia Eagles' open practice at Franklin Field on August 10 may be reserved on Wednesday beginning at 10 a.m. at PennAthletics.com/Eagles . Each entry carries a limit of six tickets. This practice is the last of three the Eagles will be holding in a stadium this summer to accommodate thousands of fans after moving training camp to their NovaCare Complex last year. The other two will be held at Lincoln Financial Field on July 28 and August 3. Fan activities at every practice will include: • Player Autographs and Post-Practice Field Access.

Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning. Sean Payton and Drew Brees. Not to oversimplify matters, but if we can fast-forward five or more years and be able to place Chip Kelly and Nick Foles in the same category as those NFL coach/quarterback combinations without a deafening laughtrack following any such suggestion, then there's a great chance all Eagles fans already would have been Because the coach/quarterback relationship...